20 top free brush fonts

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Fonts come in all manner of designs – retro fonts, handwriting fonts and script fonts, to name a few. In this article, we're focusing on brush fonts, which can add a playful, human approach to your designs. Plus, they look great printed.

Here, we've scoured the web to find 20 top examples of free brush fonts to put to good use in your projects. Enjoy!

01. Atmosphere

Atmosphere's slightly dry brush texture really brings it to life

There are plenty of reasons to love Yasir Ekinci's brush font, Atmosphere, not least that it's free for both personal and commercial use. The font features both uppercase and lowercase characters, as well as numbers and all the punctuation and symbols you'll need, all of them hand-drawn with an authentic and wonderfully scratchy brush texture. And as an added bonus, Yasir has thrown in a set of 20 watercolour splotches to help liven up your work.

02. Rustico

Rustico is a great statement font with an energetic feel

Made by Hustle Supply Co., Rustico is a bold brush font that's designed to help you make an eye-catching statement, whatever you're creating. Free for both personal and commercial use, its all-caps letterforms are drawn at a slight italic slant, and the rough and realistic brush texture gives Rustico a lively and energetic feel.

03. Westfalia

Westfalia provides an authentic hand-drawn feel with its messy edges and varied line thickness

A hand-painted, free brush font, Westfalia was created by the team at Pixel Surplus. Providing an authentic hand-drawn feel with its messy edges and varied line thickness, Westfalia is great for any outdoor and exploration-themed design work.

04. Wild Youth 

Wild Youth is a modern font with the distinct influence of adventure and the great outdoors

Wild Youth is beautiful hand-drawn brush font from designer Jeremy Vessey. Available on Behance, Wild Youth is described as 'a modern font with the distinct influence of adventure and the great outdoors'. Perfect for logos, quotes, stationary, apparel and much more, Wild Youth is free for both personal and commercial use.

05. Banaue

Banaue is a handwritten brush font with a homemade look

Hand brushed by Ieva Mezule, Banaue is a handwritten free brush font with a homemade look. The name is taken from the Philippines, Banaue being a place in the north where rice terraces stretch around mountains, hence the lady in the blue raincoat, a local rice planter, featured in the main image. Banaue features 104 characters, with all the basic glyphs.

06. Brusher

Brusher is a bold and modern brush font

Created by Vlad Cristea and Raul Taciu, Brusher is a bold and modern brush font. It includes 100 glyphs (including full uppercase and lowercase sets) crafted with precise strokes and smooth lines to give a fresh, modern look. The uneven letter sizes and shapes create a pleasingly hand-drawn effect, while still remaining neat and controlled.

07. Summer Hearts

Summer Hearts brush fonts is great for a variety of print and digital projects

Summer Hearts is a hand-painted, all-caps brush typeface designed by Hustle Supply Co, aka Jeremy Vessey, a type designer based in Charlottetown, Canada. The slightly spiky nature of these letterforms would make this free brush font great for a variety of print and digital projects, including posters, branding and logo design.

08. Selima

Selima is free for both personal and commercial use

This font was designed by Jroh, is a creative agency based in Aceh in Indonesia. Selima is beautiful and elegant brush font, which is free for both personal and commercial use. Its curved letterforms are combined with slightly raw edges to give a haphazard, free feel.

09. Rissa

Rissa is perfectly suited to stationery, logos and much more

With an authentic brush, handcrafted feel, Rissa is perfectly suited to stationery, logos and much more. This free font comes from Maulana Creative, a graphic design and typography collective from Indonesia.

10. Kust

Kust was created using a thick brush using pure black ink

Kust was created by fashion designer and painter Ieva Mezule. The letters were drawn on hard paper with a thick brush using pure black ink. Featuring 80 characters, every letter has a unique structure, with a distorted look.

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11. Beacon

Beacon is a beautiful hand drawn font

Beacon is a wonderfully fluid serifed typeface created by Cuong Truong Van. Free to download for both personal and commercial use, this font is packed with idiosyncrasies that are sure to add some personality to your work. We particularly like how the open letters and uneven curves give this font a rough wobbly finish.

12. Ampad Brush

This scratchy font comes in different styles

Thanks to its fading brush marks, Ampad Brush creates a distressed look as the letters appear to be scraped across the screen. Made by Gene Gilmore, Ampad Brush is the go-to typeface if you're looking to inject a sense of horror to your artwork. Ampad comes in four different styles, so you can pick the best one to suit your project.

13. True Lies

Create slick, edgy text with True Lies

Screeching over the page like a car burning rubber, Jonathan Harris' True Lies font is free to download for personal use. As well as covering the alphabet, thie typeface also includes numbers, symbols and punctuation marks. With a gritty, uneven finish and not a serif to be seen, True Lies is sure to make your text look rough and ready.

14. Goatskin Brush

Add a touch of Asian influence with this flowing font

The broad ink strokes in Måns Grebäck's Goatskin Brush are ideal for artists looking to add a splash of Asian influence to their work. Carefully simulating the type of marks you would expect to find in East Asian calligraphy, Goatskin Brush is the best of both worlds as it adapts the style to fit the English alphabet.

Including uppercase and lowercase words, plus a selection of punctuation marks, Goatskin Brush is a must-have typeface for your toolkit.

15. Surfing Capital

Surfing Capital has a suitably washed out look

Looking as if it's been bleached by the sun, Surfing Capital is a pleasant, relaxed font created by the Branded Quotes. Thanks to the different layers of shading, Surfing Capital has a greater sense of texture than your average typeface, making it a sure-fire way to add a spot of personality to your message.

16. Levi Brush

This paint splatter-style font comes in two free varieties

This free brush font was designed by the Romanian designer Levi Szekeres. The paint splatter holds similarities to album covers from David Guetta's 'One Love' to Coldplay's 'Viva la Vida'. A variation called Levi ReBrushed is also available for free and includes variations on the paint splatter.

17. Brush Hand New

Brush Hand New is a refinement of Edwin W Shaar's Flash Bold

Brush Hand New is a free brush font based on Flash Bold, a typeface created by Edwin W Shaar in 1939. K-Type's New version simplifies, lightens and smoothes out ragged edges. Outlines are improved to remove any remaining harshness, resulting in softer, smoother flowing glyphs ideal for titles and display purposes.

18. Paint Hand

Distorted brush font Paint Hand is ideal for child-focused design

Distorted and ragged, Paint Hand is a free brush font designed by Ursula Hitz from Switzerland. The typeface we feature here is playful and ideal for child-focused products or content. Hitz has cultivated diverse talents in typography, graphics and cheese making. Since moving to London a decade ago, her work has focused on location and place, and has been exhibited in a range of galleries.

19. Cylburn

Cylburn offers a nod to the art of sign painting

Cylburn is a semi-connected script by Dai Foldes. Cylburn structurally based on Roundhand but written with a pointed brush and restrained tension that separate it from its traditional roots. Dai Foldes lives in Baltimore, applying his background in painting to lettering and type. We love this free brush font for its balance between the imperfect hand and pixel perfect rendering – a nod to the art of sign painting.

20. Mothproof Script

Mothproof Script has a visual weight similar to traditional blackletter forms

Mothproof Script is a expressive and broad calligraphy typeface designed by Diego Quintana. This free brush font has a visual weight similar to traditional blackletter forms, with better legibility. Quitana is a self-made freelance graphic designer and self-taught web programmer. He enjoys projects that try to change and move people over selling them products.

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